Annabella, County Cork Explained
| Annabella |
| Settlement Type: | Townland |
| Pushpin Map: | Ireland |
| Pushpin Label Position: | top |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Ireland |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Ireland |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Name1: | Munster |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | County Cork |
| Unit Pref: | Imperial |
| Utc Offset1: | +0 |
| Timezone1 Dst: | IST (WEST) |
| Utc Offset1 Dst: | -1 |
| Coordinates: | 52.1411°N -8.6656°W |
| Postal Code: | P51 |
| Area Code: | 022 |
Annabella is a townland near Mallow, County Cork in Ireland.[1] [2] Some sources give the townland's Irish name as Eanach-bile, and translate it as "marsh of the sacred tree [''bile'']".[3] Other sources dispute this derivation as a back-formed neologism.[4] Mallow railway station (built c.1845) lies within Annabella townland.[5]
Notes
- Web site: Placenames Database of Ireland . Annabella . 9 February 2011.
- Book: The Genealogical magazine; Part 3 of Genealogical journals and periodicals; Part 3 of Rare printed sources for genealogical research . 1900 . Elliot Stock . New York Public Library . 372 .
- Web site: Joyce . Patrick . Irish Local Names Explained . Annabella . 1902.
- Regarding the eanach-bile (marsh of the sacred tree) derivation advanced by P.W. Joyce or indeed the áth an bhile (ford of the sacred tree) proffered by Eugene O Curry in the Ordnance Survey Namebook (1840), both are incorrect. O Curry's colleague, Dr. John O Donovan, was correct in his assertion 'I think that this is a fancy name' (Ordnance Survey Namebook). It may have derived from a one-time female resident of Annabella House, now demolished. Details of the house and demesne are given in Houses Of Cork, Vol.1-North, p.29 (Anna-Maria Hajba) where she cites Joyce's derivation of eanach bile. Early name-forms include: Annabelle(1719), Annabel(1721), Anabel(1750), Annable(1776) and thereafter Annabelle (1811, 1830, 1837 and 1840). Correspondence from Pádraig Ó Dálaigh, Higher Placenames Officer to Steven Driskell. 2011-02-10.
- Web site: Mallow Railway Station, Annabella, Mallow, County Cork . National Inventory of Architectural Heritage . buildingsofireland.ie . 9 September 2020 .
